African wood mask, 'Ankonam'

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A colourful headdress crowns this powerful mask of Denkyira origin. From the Akan region of Ghana, the Denkyira were powerful people who continuously prevailed in inter-tribal wars. Ankoman is a mask that celebrates their victories and signifies that "You don't walk alone without your God." Samuel Okyere carves the sese wood horned mask by hand and decorates it with embossed aluminium plates and painted details. Clay is used to achieve an aged finish.

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Meet the Artist

"I realized I could do much better things with my life, so I decided to go into arts…."

"I was born on February 16, 1951 at Aburi-Akwapim. I attended the Methodist Primary School, also at Aburi, and then furthered my studies up at the Nsawam LA Middle School in 1965. I then enrolled at the Accra Workers College in 1972 for six years of which I offered Commerce, Accounting, Economics, Geography, and other General Arts.

"Before then I was working with Ghana Standard Chartered Bank as a messenger. But I realized I could do much better things with my life so I decided to go into arts, especially carving. I decided to go into carving in 1981. I did not really undergo any actually training, but started carving bit by bit and sometimes sought help from my other colleagues. Again, I sometimes served as a helping hand to some of my colleagues around when they had a heavy workload upon them. Through this, my interest in arts - and especially carving - was generated. However, through this minor assistance that I gave, I became very skilled in carving. I then decided to settle for full time carving and depend solely on my own ideas to carve.

"I have three men who I'm currently training and sometimes have workers who I pay on a part time basis."

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Unicef Market offers triple win pricing, where YOU the consumer, Children from around the world, and Artisans all benefit.

WIN # 1 You Save!

Handmade goods from developing nations usually pass through a series of intermediaries before being purchased by retail consumers. Each of these intermediaries adds cost to the product, and that cost is passed on to the customer. The U.S. Fund for Unicef partnered with NOVICA, who works directly with artists through their regional offices in Asia, Africa and Latin America, allowing purchases from Unicef Market to go directly from the artisans to fulfilling customer orders. By skipping steps in the traditional supply chain, you can buy high quality items for less than the regular retail prices.

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Each item purchased from Unicef Market will benefit Unicef's programmes that provide lifesaving nutrition, medicine, education, clean water, emergency relief and more to children in need.

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